Monthly Archives: January 2010

Video Connectivity

Yesterday and today I have been testing the procedures for connecting over wired and wireless networks to live video streaming and static image transfer. Below are details of my journey starting with live video streaming over a wired network without … Continue reading

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Iperf – Measuring Bandwidth

The following procedures should be used to test the bandwidth on all connects types in the field prior to performing any other tests to establish the quality of connection. Full details on what Iperf is and how to use it … Continue reading

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Asterisk running peer to user

We’ve been developing VoIP support for ERA in the Portable VoWLAN Project (funded by JISC). JANET, through their Portable WLAN Programme, are helping us to investigate backhaul links so that our field students could access resources over the internet. We’ve … Continue reading

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Countdown to Nicaragua!

We’ve been fortunate enough to try out the JANET Portable WLAN set up between the Open University and a live volcano in Nicaragua! This certainly wasn’t planned for when we started, but never turn down a fantastic opportunity to really … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Portable WLAN Blog

This blog has been set up as a place for notes and field data collected as part of the Portable WLAN project. Mark O’Leary and his colleagues at JANET are running a Portable WLAN Programme to investigate options for extending … Continue reading

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